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None at all. Just humans doing human stuff.

Some fantastical creatures, but just humans.

Fantastical creatures, wizards, the whole nine yards.

[Heron TSG]

I heard we were limited to 4 goals per year

[Maldevious]

That is correct, Barbarossa. Could you remove two of those goals, 100Killer9? Glad to have you back on (although I have thought up a rather amusing explanation for a tribe not having any goals for a year... maybe I'll get to use it one day).

[100killer9]

O RLY?
1. Attempt to create something that could cut down a tree.
2. Gather food
3. Raise and breed horses
4. Sacrifice berry seeds by burying them in the ground.

[Maldevious]

An interesting turn for some... look for adults turning into elders and elders dying next turn, as well as some GM created goals to start springing up.

As a side note, I enjoy reading the "in-character" RP type posts reacting to what has happened during the year, so try to put something together if you have time. On the other hand, make sure that your goals are clearly marked (either with numbers in a "in-character" post or at the end in a summary type format), as I had trouble figuring out the specific goals for some tribes.

As this turn was posted on Tuesday night, the deadline for the next turn is next Tuesday night (March 23).

Spoiler: Tribe: Hesperida (Faden) (click to show/hide)

(104M/104W/72C/25E)
The year is kind to the Hesperida. Hunting and farming produce ample supplies for the year, although no new children are born. A wise elder creates a plow that is able to be lashed behind the mules the tribe has domesticated, greatly increasing the ease of turning over the soil. Foraging in the woods, a group of men come upon a mushroom. The spores of the mushroom, when inhaled, create a battle frenzy unlike anything the tribe has seen. The elders recommend collecting this spore for future conflicts.
Summary:  Adequate food, plows (+1 to food rolls), battle spores (+1 to battle rolls)

Spoiler: Tribe: Xio'Vi (Jetsquirrel) (click to show/hide)

(94M/98W/67C/20E)
One disastrous encounter mars an otherwise successful year. An argument about how best to hide and strengthen the buildings leads to blows, and a man is struck down. HIs family group, outraged, storms out of the camp, never to return. The shaman is appointed, and begins his study of the local plants. He has a few new ideas, but none of them pan out exactly as he expects. The fishing is excellent this year, as the nets created from local foliage and vines greatly increases the harvest, and several new children are born.
Summary: Plenty of food (+5 children), vine nets (+1 to food rolls), shaman appointed, great exodus after argument (-5 men, -5 women, -5 children, -3 elders)

Spoiler: Tribe: Frihkann (evilcherry) (click to show/hide)

(101M/100W/68C/22E)
The year is not kind to the Frihkann. Attempts to further clam harvests are struck with tragedy, as two men die when knocked unconscious attempting to place the logs undersea. The fickle bounty of nature is cruel this year, and a great famine would have struck if not for the many-hooked lines discovered the prior year. As it is, several die due to lack of food, but an incredible disaster is avoided. With such sorrow, the pearl craft producers are distracted during the year, and the elders decree that they would be shamed to allow such sub-par crafts to leave the tribe in trade. Not much progress is made regarding the platform for fishing, as the lack of food distracts those tasked with looking into it.
Summary: No progress on increasing clams, food shortage (-3 men, -3 women, -3 children, -3 elders), no tradeable crafts, no progress on fishing platforms

Spoiler: Tribe: Gerjborn (Barbarossa) (click to show/hide)

(101M/102W/71C/25E)
The year is filled with steady progress, set against one deadly accident. When raising the storage hut, beams of insufficient strength are selected to support it, and the hut collapses during the winter, crushing a man and a woman. There is a halt in the palisade construction as the men discuss the design of it. More farmland is cleared, and the hunting and planting goes well: several new children are born due to surpluses. Reed baskets are attempted, but no one is quite able to perfect a tight weaving technique. The resulting baskets are useable for large objects, but not of a quality worthy of trading.
Summary: Storage hut collapses (-1 man, -1 woman), food surplus (+3 children), farmland cleared, reed baskets created (not tradable quality)

Spoiler: Tribe: Cyprinus (Lidhuin) (click to show/hide)

(104M/104W/77C/25E)
The spirits the elders venerate surely must be blessing the Cyprinus this year. The tales of deep sea wonders emboldens the men to continue pushing further out into the water, and the rewards are ample. Large fish, some bigger than a man, are speared after a trick is discovered: by aiming below the shape of the fish, a hit is virtually guaranteed. The spicy root is planted and turns out to be a voracious grower and easy to sustain. The men are incredibly cheered, and take to producing children with a vigor bordering on insane: the root, combined with the ample food, results in 15 new children being born this year. Investigating the ancient trees, an elder comes across a hive of bugs that he was told of as a child: when crushed up, the bug will become a toxic paralyzing agent, aiding the men in battle. Smaller trees are located and cut down, and the boats of the tribe become more sound and capable at sea.
Summary: Deep sea fishing prowess (+1 to food rolls), spicy root planted (+10 additional children per year), boom of children (+15 children), poisonous bug found (+1 to battle rolls), small boats made from trees

Spoiler: Tribe: Taer Nymadis (Acanthus117) (click to show/hide)

(103M/103W/76C/25E)
The Taer Nymadis succeed in domesticating a herd of local caribou. The young men begin to compete as riders of the caribou, gaining in skill and becoming very proficient with the beasts. Spears are constructed, although their quality is not amazing. Still, they will serve the tribe well in the future. Between the caribou and a large supply of local tubers, there is plenty of food and five new children are born.
Summary: Domesticated caribou (+1 to food rolls), caribou mastery (+1 to rolls involving caribou), adequate spears, plenty of food (+5 children)

Spoiler: Tribe: Na'ilah (Haika) (click to show/hide)

(103M/103W/68C/25E)
Summary:
The year is spent almost entirely on the domestication of camels, and the results are impressive. The beasts can be slaughtered, providing enough food for the tribe to survive the long year. A natural habitat mimicking breeding area is created for the camels after much hard labor by the men, and the beasts take to it immediately. With the camels concentrated in one area, it becomes easier to rely on them as a food supply, and the men begin games of skill involving them, developing into masters of the beasts.
Summary: Camels domesticated, breeding area created (+ 1 to food rolls), masters of camels (+2 to rolls involving camels)

Spoiler: Tribe: Ko'ormols (100Killer9) (click to show/hide)

(104M/103W/73C/25E)
A year of plenty graces the Ko'ormol tribe. The grassland offers plentiful sources of food, and hunters from the tribe learn to stalk the large bison that roam the area. This food brings five new children to the tribe. Horses are raised and bred, and the tribe now has enough horses for half of the men. The berry seeds that are sacrificed to the ground please the spirits, because they return in the form of bushes, bringing more stability to the food supply. However, there is an accident with a party of men foraging for sharp rocks to cut down trees: while focusing on the ground looking for stones, three men are caught unawares by a pack of wolves and torn asunder. The elders decree that the gods have decided that no trees shall be cut this year, and none are.
Summary: Three men killed attempting to find sharp stones, bison hunted (+1 to food rolls), plenty of food (+5 children), many horses (enough for half the men), berries bloom into bushes (+1 to food rolls)

[Heron TSG]

Year 3 - Gerjborn

We did well last year, but a few beams got past quality control. In the future, we will attend to all things with care and precision. Monthly Inspections of buildings will begin, led by our Chieftain, the great Mýrkjartan.

1. Rebuild the storage hut in a stronger form.
2. Clear a bit more woodland
3. Gather food (Hunt/farm)
4. Actually build the palisade. A circle around the village would be the most efficient. Leave a gate to the North. Gate's just an open portal, as I have no hinges as of yet.

[Lidhuin]

The Cyprinus Tribes - Year 3

The Elders decided to convene that year, unheard of for the tribes, but issues faced all four tribes. Each had seen a great growth in the number of children and they were caring for many young. They did not wish to risk hunger because of this and so decided that a fifth tribe should be formed. This tribe of adults from all four tribes, as well as their children, such that all tribes remained equal, were to work the land, just as had been done with the roots. It had clearly worked, but without some social upheavel, the elders knew they would never get people to stray away from fishing and proving their skills. Indeed, they couldn't, as many men went fishing that year in the boats that were built, simultaneously trying to refine them as best they could to better suit their task - to float upon the sea.

There was also the issue of the poisonous bugs. The Elders felt that, perhaps, such knowledge was too dangerous to have. It was the sort of knowledge the Unnamed Gods might not look too kindly on being used, for on who would they use it? Other tribes? There were no others and to think otherwise was madness! Each other? That too was clearly madness. No, a solution had to be found to the poison. Some manner in which to counter it, should any scorned lovers find it within themselves to try to kill each other.

And so, the life of the Cyprinus People pressed on, in a time of social revolution for their tribe.

1. Fish in the deep sea with the boats, to provide food to the Tribes.
2. Refine the boats, to make them better fishing boats (more stable, in particular).
3. Try to discover an antidote to the poison, such that its effects might be countered.
4. Have a tribe move further inland to forage for new sources of food (the fifth tribe, with about 20 men, 20 women, 15 children and 5 elders). Apply knowledge of roots growing if applicable.

[evilcherry]

Frihkann, Year 3

1. Repeat the clam/oyster/whatever mollusk farming. Drive stakes and logs into the water, and at the meantime attract more of them to attach on the surface. EXECUTE THE OLD PRIEST. This should provide food and pearls.

2. Continue with the pearl-crafting process.

3. Fish. We have to fish to survive.

4. Instead of making platforms, make ships. Ships that can sustain some seafaring, or at least act in tandem for fishing boats.

[Acanthus117]

1)separate the stronger caribou from the general population. cull the weaker ones and the smaller ones. Kill the weak ones and collect their meat and bones.
2) have the elders train the strongest men and women in spear fighting, and train the strongest of them all in tactics
3) have the elders develop bows and arrows.

[Haika]

Year 3 Na'ilah Goals

Feeling rather Blagh, so Flavor stuff up later maybe.

1. Start work on a Leatherworks(for processing Camel Hide, and other furs/hides/chitin)
2. Send Camel riders with supplies to explore beyond the desert in the cardinal(n/w/e/s) directions.

[Jetsquirrel]

Year 3 Xio'Vi Goals

-Catch fish with new nets
-Find hollow sticks and make blowdarts
-Let the shaman make a paralyzing pioson
-Hunt Creatures with blowdarts and Nets

[Jopax]

Just a question, about the modifiers to rolls, seeing how easily obtainable they are, what will happen when someone gets a +6 bonus on food rolls, they don't have to put food as a goal anymore or they just get awesome results everytime

[Maldevious]

Jopax - My thinking is that once someone gets up to a +6 bonus to something, that task would be considered so well learned and mastered that the tribe no longer has to expend a goal on it each year. I like the idea that at the beginning, tribes need to spend time and effort on food and such, but it eventually becomes less of a big deal as they become more sophisticated.

[100killer9]

Year 3 - the Ko'ormols
We have been inspired by the gift from Kaizuml! We have decided to resacrifice the seeds from the food plants that grew last year. We shall grow these plants for sustenance. We have decided that we must defend ourselves, and we are thus making spears and training men on horseback. We shall also try to cut down more trees.
1. Plant more seeds near the old plot
2. Make spears from sticks and stone
3. Master Horses
4. Cut down some trees

[Faden]

Hesperida:
The year went well for the Hesperida, though the discovery of the battle-frenzy mushrooms has shifted the thoughts of the young away from the all important farms, and onto the war-like glory of the winter hunts.
1)Start a new plot for farming battle mushrooms
2)Farm and hunt for food
3)Use glue and crafting knowledge to create a crossbow

[evilcherry]

(Yay! early turn ahoy!)